World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: The Great Fear

As nearly as any German city has
ever been in this war, Hamburg was dead last week. Its streets were
twisting lanes through tumbled wreckage. A few busses crept along them,
while cars equipped with loudspeakers called on the population to
leave. Hamburg had no gas, no electricity, no water, little food. Money
existed no longer  food, busses and trains were simply taken where
they could be had and no one asked for payment. In the ruins, on the
streets, in the branches of trees where bombs had blown them, lay the...